Carpenter&#39;s square.



No. 855,257. l PATENTED MAY 28, 1907.

J. A. MCCLOSKEY.

OARPENTERS SQUARE.` APPLIoATIoN FILED PEB. 12, 1907.

l UNiTEn STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

JOSEPH A. MaoLOsKEn OE MOUNT VERNON,` NEW YORK.

CABPENTERS SQUARE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.' `V

Application nea February 12, i907.' sami No. 357,052.

.TouZ- ziuhom it mayconcerm l Beit knownthat I, JOSEPH A. MOCLOSKEY,

acitizen of the United States,` and a resident of Mount Vernon, in' the county of Westche`s-.- ter and StatefofNew.York',"'have invented a new fand `Im roved Carpenters Square, of

lnving is a-full-,clean and exact which the' ffo description.

means adapted toenable'la builder to readily fdeterminefrom a fgive nfpitch the length'of common andjli'ip rafters, and the cut of the squareshown in Fig. 1, partly broken away 4endsofsaid rafters. -These objectsfi accomplishV by the means"v illustrated in theacconipanying drawings, in -whichvv ydrawings like, characters of reference indicate like partsfthroughout the views, and: in 'hichgjf embodying my invention; 1g'. 2- is an enlargedfview of the meeting ends of the limbs of thesqufare.; Fig. 3 is an end view of the Fig "4'i's.-' a transverse section, vtaken on the l of inches, a vscale 2 o factors usedto determine the .length of aconimon rafter, and a scale 3.0i factors to determine the length of a hip rafter. Arranged in oo -relation with said factors is a scale 4 of afoot divided into hundredths. If the pitch of. a 'rafteris ten inches to the foot, and'the-run. ofthe rafter fourteen feet, as in abuilding twenty-ei htf feet wide, byreferring to 'the scale of inc es it will be found that fis the factor to be' used for a ten inch pitch; by l multiplying said factor by fourteen, tue length of tn a hip rafter is '1Q inches and the run vourteen feet, the factor for the hip rafter will be 19.69.

This multiplied by fourteen'will give 275.66. inches, or 22.97 feet, and by referring tothe scale of hundredths` ofa foot and the'scale of inchesit may readily be determined what is the equivalent in inches of .22 and .97 of a foot. The vertical and horizontal cuts ofthe -ends of said rafters are determined by means of a protractor extending across the pivoted i.'registering line*l "Thisinventlon hastor its-object to provide e run 'of the rafter, the product will be2'18-68v inches,.or 118.22 feet.v Again, ifthe itch of endsof the limbs ofthe square, provided with a' scale 45 of graduations; for-measuring thecuts of ahip or valley rafter, and an'. ad-

3acent vscaleV 6 formeasur1ngcuts of common 6o rafters. .These'scales are. Concentric with 'each other and with a pivotal :screw-'7 ,which joins -the limbs;v `'of the :square together. A jextendslfrorn; `the center ofl Ithe pivotal connection betweensaidlimbs and across a mutilatedcircular end 9 formed' 'non' thefinner portionfofjthe .long limb of the square, @as clearlnyfsjhown n Fig. 5.

. f To determine thevertical out of the end of a common raft/er' having a pitch of three.

vinchesto 'the `foot,the.short limb of the l 'square is moved`l toward 'the long limb until the line 3 ofthe inner Scale 6l on the left of the ro'tractoris brought intdvregistry with the ine8. The inner edgesiof the limbs of the square will then indicate the vertical out.

of the lend of the commonrafter. To` deter- 'mine the angle of the o'pposite endof the rafter, the short limb is brought nearer to the long limb of the square until the line 3 at the right of the scale 6 i's brou ht into're istry'" with the line 8; the inner e ges ofthe imbs" followed, using the scale 5, however, instead vided the square shown in the accompanyin drawings, the inner end of the short limb o the square being provided with a mutilated circular flange 10 adapted to engage a. recess formed in the mutilated` end 9 of the long limb 'of the square, to permit said limb being pivotally connected by means-of the screw 7 which preferably has a threaded engagement With a head 1l shown in Fig. 4, extending limbs of the square respectively. The

lon limbs of the square are held at a right angle by means of a locking lever 14 which is pivotally mounted upon a pin 15 attached to the ionglimb of the square, as'. shownin Fig. 5, and rovided on one end with laterallyexof the square will then indicate the angle of inclination of thehorizontal out of the raftr.'

To determine theinclination ofthe cuts of the hip or valley. rafters, the same method is Athrough apertures l2 and 13 in the short and tending off-set lips 16 adapted to engage 8.1. notch 17 formedin the edge of-the short limb of the square and held normally in engagement with said notch by means of a spring 18. Vhen it is desired to use the preti-actor) to determine the out of the ends of a rafter,

the shortfend of the lever 14 is depressed re- IIC leasing the opposite end of the lever from engagement with the notch of the adjacent limb, thereby enabling the short limb to be moved on its pivotal connection with the long limb of the square. l

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A carpenters square having two arms of unequal length pivoted together, and provided with a protraetor extending' across the pivoted ends of both of said arms and provided with a scale for determining the angle of inclination ofthe ends of a common rafter, and a scale for determining the angle of inelination of the ends of a hip ra-ter of predeterminedv pitch, substantially as shown and described.

2. A carpenters square having two arms of unequal length pivoted together andprovvided with a protractor extending across the pivoted ends of both of said arms, having scales reading similarly from each endto the center and adapted to indicate by means of the inner .edges of the arms ofsaid square the a Gle of inc ination at the ends of a hip or va ley rafter .having a predetermined pitch,

substantially as shownand described.

3. A carpenters square having unequal len thpivoted together, and provvided with a protractor extending across the pivotal ends of both of said arms, the protractor comprising two scales reading similarly from each' end to thecenter, one of said scales measuring the inclination of the opposite ends of .a hip rafter, measuring the inclination ,of the opposite ends of a common rafte'r, as indicated by the relative vosition of the inner edges of said arms, su stantially as shown and described. Intestimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciilication in the presence of ltwo subscribing Witnesses. 1

JosErHfnMCcLosKEY.. Witnesses:

.ROBERT W. HARDIE,

EVERARD B. MARSHALL.

arms of the other .scale 

